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Venture Capital Q&A Session

Both Sides of the Table

We received so much positive feedback from our This Week in Venture Capital show walking through valuation calculations & term sheets that we decided to do a Q&A show this week to address topics that entrepreneurs want to learn about. In fact, far better if you haven’t raised venture capital.

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Venture Capital Demystified: A Fundraising Guide for Entrepreneurs, Investors, and Lawyers

YoungUpstarts

As an entrepreneur, your goal when raising financing is to get several term sheets — the documents describing the terms and conditions of financing. One of the worst positions you can be in during a financing is to have investors interested, but be too far short of your goal. Determine how much you need to raise.

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Founder-Investor Fit

VC Cafe

A couple of weeks ago I was did a fireside chat with Alon Grinshpoon, founder and CEO of Echo3D , a CDN and CMS for 3D content in the cloud and a Remagine Ventures portfolio company, as part of an entrepreneurial finance MBA class in Tel Aviv University. As the venture capital industry evolves, so do the models for supporting founders.

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Brad Feld Drops Knowledge. Here’s What He Said …

Both Sides of the Table

My initial desire to blog came from something that’s always been my approach to investing – I’m a nerd and I love to play with the technology and part of my approach has really been to understand things both at a user level and at a reasonably deep tentacle level. Very few people can do a good job with a presentation that is emailable.”.

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Worked Up about Unrealistic Venture Capital Valuation

Growthink Blog

Specifically, the guy who wrote me this email. I received an email last week from an entrepreneur (let's call him Mike) Now to begin, I was pretty impressed with Mike since he used a nice technique to get his email in my inbox (due to the volume of emails I receive, they are screened by others before they get to me).

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Giving Visionary Women Their Due

Hunter Walker

One passage in particular — Jennifer Hyman , CEO of Rent the Runway, talking about how we call many men in tech “visionary” but fail to apply this characteristic as often (or at all) to women. Over the past five years, I’ve witnessed theSkimm be underestimated by the venture capital industry, by pundits and press.

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It’s About Women Running Startups

Steve Blank

Michael Bloomberg has yet to get his due for engineering the New York entrepreneurial ecosystem. This raises an interesting question: is the credibility of female entrepreneurs in the eyes of New York VC’s something about the venture firms, or is it about the industries they are funding? What role does venture capital play?